AI and automation in Dynamics 365 F&O: what is practical today
A practical view of AI and automation in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations — Copilot, business events, Power Automate and the data foundations they depend on.
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O consulting & engineering
Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, engineered for the long run.
Codefine designs, implements, extends, integrates, optimises and supports D365 F&O. One focused team with more than 20 years of Dynamics AX and Dynamics 365 experience — from the first architecture decision to the thousandth production batch run.
- D365 F&O
- X++
- SQL
- Azure
- Power Platform
- Power BI
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20+ years
Dynamics AX and D365 F&O experience
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D365 F&O focused
One platform, known in depth
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Technical + functional
Process and code in one team
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Architecture to support
From blueprint to long-term operation
Core capabilities
Everything a D365 F&O environment needs — from people who build it
Six capabilities cover most of what our clients ask for. Each one is delivered by engineers who understand both the business process and the code underneath it.
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01
D365 F&O Solution Architecture
The technical and functional blueprint for D365 F&O — modules, data, integrations, security and extensions decided before they become expensive to change.
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02
ERP Implementation & Configuration
Module setup, data migration, testing and go-live for finance, procurement, warehouse, manufacturing and project operations.
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03
Support & Managed Services
Incident handling, monitoring, batch and integration health, service-update validation and continuous improvement after go-live.
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04
Performance Optimization
Slow forms, batch jobs, reports and integrations traced to their cause in X++, SQL, data volume or batch design — then fixed.
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05
Custom Software Development
Upgrade-safe X++ extensions, data entities, services and batch processes — plus connected .NET and Power Platform components.
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06
Integration & API Development
OData, custom services, business events, recurring data jobs and Azure Integration Services — designed for volume, failure and monitoring.
D365 engineering
Engineering depth where ERP projects are won or lost
Functional consultants decide what the system should do. Whether it keeps doing it at volume, through every service update, depends on engineering. That is where Codefine spends most of its time.
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X++
Extensions, Chain of Command, SysOperation batch services and set-based data access.
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SQL
Query plans, index design, blocking chains and data-volume growth.
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Data models
Legal entities, financial dimensions and master data ownership.
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Integrations
OData, custom services, business events and Service Bus queues.
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Batch jobs
Batch groups, threads, task bundling and scheduling windows.
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Architecture
Upgrade-safe extension strategy, environments and ALM.
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Azure
Logic Apps, Functions, API Management and DevOps pipelines.
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Power Platform
Dataverse, virtual tables, dual-write and governed flows.
class CFInvoiceSyncService extends SysOperationServiceBase
{
public void process(CFInvoiceSyncContract _contract)
{
CustInvoiceJour invoice;
// Fetch only the fields the integration needs
while select RecId, InvoiceId, InvoiceAccount from invoice
where invoice.InvoiceDate == _contract.parmInvoiceDate()
{
CFInvoiceEvent::newFromInvoice(invoice).send();
}
}
}Execution trace
- SysOperation service
- while select · CustInvoiceJour
- Business event · send()
- Service Bus · enqueue
Illustrative trace structure — not measured data.
Delivery lifecycle
One team from understanding to long-term support
The same engineers who design the solution stay to measure it, optimise it and support it — so knowledge is not lost at every hand-over.
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01
Understand
We map business processes, pain points, the current system landscape and what success has to look like.
- Process & landscape map
- Prioritised requirements
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02
Architect
We define the D365 F&O solution model: modules, data, integrations, security, environments and performance.
- Solution blueprint
- Integration & data design
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03
Deliver
We configure, develop, test and deploy with clear ownership, controlled releases and go-live readiness checks.
- Configured environments
- Tested extensions & integrations
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04
Optimize
We measure how the system behaves under real load and remove bottlenecks in code, queries and batch design.
- Performance findings
- Targeted fixes
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05
Support
We stay after go-live: incident handling, monitoring, change requests and continuous improvement.
- Managed support
- Improvement backlog
Performance & reliability
We find where the time actually goes
A slow posting can spend its time in X++ logic, in one expensive query, waiting on a lock held by a batch job or calling another system. Measuring first tells us which — and the fix follows the evidence.
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Slow forms
Heavy data sources, display methods and grids that load more than they show.
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SQL queries
Scans where a seek was expected, missing indexes and parameter-sensitive plans.
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Batch processing
Serialised tasks, competing jobs and overnight runs that drift into the morning.
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Reports
Report data providers that read row by row and temporary tables that grow.
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X++ execution paths
Queries inside loops, missing set-based operations and caching that never hits.
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Integration bottlenecks
Synchronous calls in posting logic and entities processed one record at a time.
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Technology ecosystem
D365 F&O at the centre, the Microsoft platform around it
We work across the technologies that surround Finance & Operations — and we know which ones a requirement really needs.
Experience
Two decades across every generation of Microsoft Dynamics
Our team has worked with Dynamics AX and Dynamics 365 for more than 20 years. Knowing how the platform evolved — and why — makes upgrades, legacy code and modern architecture decisions far less risky.
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2006
Dynamics AX 4.0
Axapta becomes Microsoft Dynamics AX. X++ and the AOT are the core of ERP customisation.
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2008
Dynamics AX 2009
Role centres and a broader functional footprint across finance, trade and production.
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2011
Dynamics AX 2012
Model store, new data model and the R2/R3 releases that many companies still run today.
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2016
Dynamics 365 for Operations
The cloud generation: browser client, Lifecycle Services and Azure-hosted environments.
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2019
Finance & Supply Chain apps
Continuous service updates and an extension-only model replace overlayering for good.
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Today
Modern Microsoft ERP
F&O converging with Power Platform, Dataverse, Fabric and Copilot capabilities.
Milestones show Microsoft's public product history, not individual Codefine projects.
Insights
Notes from D365 F&O projects
Practical writing on performance, architecture, integrations, analytics and delivery — from the people doing the work.
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Talk to engineers who know Dynamics 365 F&O
Tell us about your environment — a planned implementation, a performance problem, an integration that keeps failing or an AX system that needs a future. You will speak with someone who can answer technical questions on the first call.